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I think the lead section is slightly, albeit unintentionally, misleading on the seat's history. Firstly to say that "The seat has a diverse electoral history" is not entirely true. This seat has only existed since 2005, since when it has only returned a Conservative MP (albeit with smallish majorities at times). In fact of the seats that have existed in Scotland since new boundaries were introduced for the 2005 election only five other have been represented by the same party continuously. It might be better to say that "the area covered by the seat has a diverse electoral history". It is indeed true that parts of the constituency belonged to predecessor seats that had a more varied past in electoral terms. However care needs to be taken with some of the comments. It should be noted for instance that in the 1990s the Lib Dem vote in Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale fell significantly and the seat was won with less than a 40% share and so was not a safe seat by this point. Equally in 1997 Dumfriesshire went Labour by a large majority. Dunarc (talk) 20:58, 30 April 2020 (UTC) Amended by Dunarc (talk) 20:18, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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